“He fought so hard for what he’d been taught to want… and when he got it, he just grew more and more confused. The silences grew longer.”
– Rock Hudson in Seconds (1966) dir. John Frankenheimer
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Conversations really are the best after 3 am. The heavier the eyelids, the sincerer the words and silence is not awkward it’s shared.
Dau Voire (via makethemdream)
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Gene Tierney in Laura (1944).
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I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
Muriel Ruskeyser, from The Speed Of Darkness (via mirroir)
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If we don’t sit down and shut up once in a while we’ll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
Joan Baez (via eyelashkissesa)
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Yes, there has always been
more meaning in what’s left unspoken.
Toeti Heraty, from “Geneva in July”, translated by Ulrich Kratz and Carole Satyamurti (via the-final-sentence)
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There is always something, a remnant, which will never come out from your brain, but will remain there with you, and you alone, for ever and ever, and you will die, perhaps, without having imparted what may be the very essence of your idea to a single living soul.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot (via normalhumanparanoia)
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“Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.”
Mitch Albom (via zodiaccity)
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Life is so ironic. It takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.
(via misiuq)
Source: ex-peri-ence
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What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 21 July 1912
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I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.
Cristina Garcia (via mercurieux)
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There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand without you even speaking a word.
Yasmin Mogahed (via ultrapearl)
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Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson (via amandaonwriting)